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Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park #1)(audiobook)

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A billionaire has created a technique to clone dinosaurs. From the DNA that his crack team of scientists extract, he is able to grow the dinosaurs in his laboratories and lock them away on an island behind electric fences, creating a sort of theme park. He asks a group of scientists from several different fields to come and view the park, but something goes terribly wrong when a worker on the island turns traitor and shuts down the power.

Dinosaurs belong to the past, as they got extinct 65 million years ago, but John Hammond believes otherwise. Together with the help of investors he has managed to bring back into reality animals that once ruled the Earth.

Genetics and manipulations with DNA have gone a long way to be able to achieve something like that. Also in this case the DNA of all dinosaur species in the park hasn’t gone unscathed to gain wanted qualities. But the question is, will it be enough? It cannot go unnoticed that no dinosaur in this book have feathers, also the method how they are cloned and they remain visually the same as they should is a bit doubtful.

Another realization while reading and after was that some part of people (including Hammond) think that they are superior than any other animal. Because of that and with addition of wealth, Hammond assumes that just because he participated in their creation that also attributes to dinosaurs. He already thinks about creating the next park even before the first one is properly opened to the public.

Hammond has invited to the island few experts so they would sure that it is safe for tourists. One of those experts is Ian Malcolm, and accordingly to an old, rich guy he doesn’t even listen when Malcolm expresses his concerns, maybe his Chaos theory in which he compares dinosaurs to the weather, meaning the unpredictability, was too vague. But even so Hammond maintains wrongly placed optimism even at the end.

I believe if not everyone than most will have seen or heard about Jurassic park movies based on this and the series next book The Lost World. So it’s shouldn’t be a spoiler and surprise that things go awry and very gloom when one of the employees decides to use this ‘’visitors day’’ to sell a competitor the way to catch up with Hammond.

From all the characters the most annoying one was Lex Murphy. She was so annoying that there were moments when I wished that one of those dinosaurs would get her. No one else was near her.